Shipped in September 1956, the first 5MB hard disk unit weighed over a ton (approximately 2,200 pounds) and was used in the IBM 305 RAMAC, the first commercial computer to feature a moving-head ...

The primary computer storage medium until the turn of the century when solid state drives began replacing them. Hard disks emerged in corporate datacenters in the late 1960s and began to flourish ...

25 years ago, Seagate introduced the first hard disk whose platters rotated at 15,000 rpm. The Cheetah X15 thus achieved almost 40 MByte/s. 10,000 revolutions per minute was the standard speed for ...

In spring 2000, IBM expanded its DTLA hard disk series with two model series, the Deskstar 40GV and 75GXP. For the first time ...

The first generation of WD Raptor hard drives. Booting up in 15 seconds may seem glacial by today’s standards — and, to be fair, it wasn’t that fast back then either. I’d seen RAM drive ...

By this point, the 5MB had shrunk in size to just a 5.25-inch hard disk. It cost $4,300 (in today's dollars). 1983 - Rodime released the first 3.5-inch hard disk, the RO352, setting a standard for ...